Lap 21, Lewis Hamilton pulls into the pits, goes onto the Soft tyre and it is slower than usual. Hamilton appears behind Nico Rosberg. Lap 22, Kimi Raikkonen pits and goes onto the Soft tyre. Raikkonen appears behind Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo in 6th place. Lap 27, Sebastian Vettel’s right rear has exploded in spectacular fashion on the main straight, he is out and the Safety car is deployed. Nico Rosberg leads ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Daniel Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen and Valterri Bottas. Lap 32, the Safety car is in and Kevin Magnussen has been given a 5 second penalty for changing direction while defending against Pascal Wehrlein.

Lap 36, Nico Hulkenberg and Romain Grosjean have been given a 5 second penalty for speeding in the pit lane. Lap 45, Lewis Hamilton is now just over 1 second behind Nico Rosberg in 1st. Lap 51, Nico Hulkenberg pits and takes the 5 second penalty. Lap 54, Lewis Hamilton is under 1 second behind Rosberg now. At the end of 54, Hamilton pits and goes onto the Soft tyre. Rosberg pits at the end of lap 55 and goes onto the Supersoft tyre.

Lap 61, Nico Rosberg has now overtaken Max Verstappen into turn 3 and back into the lead. Daniel Ricciardo pulls into the pits and puts on the Ultrasoft tyre. Lap 63, Lewis Hamilton has now overtaken Max Verstappen into turn 2. Lap 65, Williams are now retiring Felipe Massa while Daniel Ricciardo gets back past Jenson Button into turn 3. Lap 66, Fernando Alonso and Nico Hulkenberg now retire from the race. Lap 68, Lewis Hamilton is now only half a second behind race leader, Nico Rosberg.

Lap 71, both Rosberg and Hamilton enter the final lap and Rosberg gets a bad exit off of turn 1 and that compromises him to the run up to turn 2. Hamilton is behind and in the slipstream and with the help of DRS, he goes to the outside of turn 2. Rosberg takes the inside, brakes later than usual, turns later than usual and both collide! Hamilton is forced to run wide and Rosberg’s front wing has dislodged its self. Hamilton overtakes Rosberg while yellow flags are being shown as Sergio Perez is in the gravel trap at turn 3. Hamilton comes round and wins as Rosberg is falling back and is now overtaken by Max Verstappen and Kimi Raikkonen.